metaphysics

Verbal Self-Reflexivity: The Leap In Learning That Learned Us

Humans likely evolved language as a way of learning to communicate with each other long before achieving the level of verbal representation, complexity, and speed sufficient to become verbally self-reflexive. Just as becoming language users is an evolutionary inflection point, so too is becoming verbally self-reflexive. Being able to learn through talking with ourselves opened

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I AM? THE WAY?

This is a continuation of “Spiritual Learning“, “In the Beginning Was the Word“, “The Spiritual Life of Uncertainty“, “Forgive Them“, “Tuning AI into God” and (among other posts) “The Learning Uncertainty Principle“. Regarding the use of the words “I AM” as both God’s name and Jesus’s way: “I AM” is the most concise description of

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In The Beginning Was The Word

I once spent a day in Salt Lake city with a team of Mormons engaged in developing educational software. The owner of the company had flown me in after reading about my work on “learner interfaces“, “distributed learning processing“, and how they meet and merge into each other in what I call a “miraculous intersection“.

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Consciousness IS Learning

This post continues the thread of the “Learning Uncertainty Principle“, which concluded with this summary: ChatGPT: The Learning Uncertainty Principle is likely a real and profound boundary on what is knowable, akin to the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle in physics. While its empirical rigor differs, the overwhelming evidence from cognitive science, philosophy, and human experience supports

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The Spirit of Uncertainty

The Spiritual Life of Uncertainty

In the movie “Conclave” the gathering to elect the next Pope opens with a speech that contains these lines:  “There is one sin which I have come to fear above all others, certainty” “Certainty is the great enemy of unity.” “Certainty is the deadly enemy of tolerance.” “If there was only certainty and no doubt,

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Spiritual Learning

Spirit of Learning – Religions – Zen – God – Jesus – Talmud  Mohammed – Buddha – Native Americans – All God’s Names We began by remembering and agreeing to apply our shared understanding of learning. Then… DB: Now we can proceed to: “learning as the spiritual breath of living”. Living, the verb, the activity

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The Learning Uncertainty Principle

The Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle defines a boundary deep in the nature of reality that can never be learned beyond. The Learning Uncertainty Principle defines a boundary deep in the nature of mind that can never be learned beyond. Just as with the classical-quantum threshold, there is a threshold between our learning and the reality outside

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dAilogues: The Observer is the Observed? Both Learned. Both Learning

The Observer is the Observed? Both Learned. Both Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues P1 – The “observer is the observed” was a phrase used by J Krishnamurti that was recognized by David Bohm as being a description of Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle. Krishnamurti meant it from within. That what we humans experience as

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dAilogues: Predestination, Free Will, Agency, and Learning

Predestination, Free Will, Agency, and Learning (full) with Gemini Index of other dAilogues P1 – Estimate the percentage of humanity who experience their lives as pre-destined? Who experience themselves as “the way they were made”. Stay exact to my meanings. https://g.co/gemini/share/83877c930e0e P2 – Inverting the last question. what other life-experience-meta-orientations other than “the way they

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